Improvement in knife-polishers



E. H. ROCKWOOD 80C. D. SHEPARD.

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N0. 129,594. Patented July 16, I872.

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EBENEZER H. ROOKWOOD AND CHARLES D. SHEPARD, OF BOSTON, MASS.

IMPROVEMENT IN KNlFE-PQLISHERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,594, dated July 16, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

We, EBENEZER H. RocKwooD and CHARLES D. SHEPARD,-both of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Knife-Polisher, of which the following is a specification:

N atm'e and Object of the Invention.

The invention consists of a metallic cup or receptacle, of about an inch in diameter and an inch and a half in depth, to which is attached a handle. Upon one side of the cup, and near the open part, is a slight projection outward, provided with, at its lower part, small holes or orifices for delivering the contents of the cup downward. Into the open part of the cup is pressed a cork, which keeps the contents in the cup and serves as the polishingsurface. The object of the invention is clearly indicated by the device itself.

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 represents a section of the same.

The letterArepresents the cup; B, the handle; G, the cork and a a, &c., the holes in Claim.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A self-feeding polishing device, composed of the handle B, the cup A provided with the holes a a for delivering downward, and the cork O, the whole being combined and arranged substantially as described.

EBENR. H. ROOKWOOD. CHARLES D. SHEPARD.

Witnesses J. L. NEWTON, FRANK G. PARKER. 

